Fourteen teams competed for the League Leaders' Shield over 27 rounds, after which the highest finishing teams entered the play-offs to compete for a place in the Grand Final and a chance to win the championship and the Super League Trophy. There are six other club trained players in the first team pool. [ citation needed ], Fulham played two "home" games against Swinton and Huddersfield at Widnes in 1983 as the pitch at the Cottage had disintegrated in the wet winter following the collapse of the main drain to the River Thames under the Miller Stand. [2]. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. Head coach Tony Currie left the club at the end of the 1998 Super League season and was replaced by Dan Stains. After that the Harlequins only won two more games in the next six months and the circle of life was completed when Harlequins RL played St Helens in their final game as the franchise on 10 September 2011. This good start was followed up with key victories over Salford, Toulouse and Halifax to leave the Broncos with 8 points in the Qualifiers table sitting in fifth behind the Toronto Wolfpack in fourth, which meant London would face the Wolfpack away at the Lamport Stadium in Toronto on 7 October 2018. 's ground at Claremont Road. Within a week of his arrival, the team was renamed "Harlequins" and the press releases of the time suggested that this would make the combined club "a powerhouse in both codes" according to Mark Evans of the Union club and provide a "very, very strong future for rugby league in the capital" according to Lenagan. Within nine weeks, Genders and Bowden had assembled a team of highly experienced players approaching retirement, together with a few promising youngsters. A former hooker, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League for Brothers, in the New South Wales Rugby League as captain of the North Sydney Bears, and in the Super League for the London Broncos, later becoming their coach. Rea resigned his Chief Executive role at the end of the 2000 season to become head coach on a full-time basis. 2003 marked the club's first Super League play off appearance, losing in the first round to St. Helens 24–6 at Knowsley Road. [16] As of 2019, the Hall of Fame has 11 members: Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! Assistant coach Joey Grima became head coach, having been asked to take charge for the rest of the season and next.. The original Fulham team wore an all black kit with a broad white chevron, bordered with red, on the shirt. They lost 22–30 to Workington Town with Mark Johnson scoring a hat-trick and Logan Campbell also bagging a try. 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